Barbara and
brother writer and director Andy
Muschietti created a horror short called Mamá that
has been raved about in a number of film festivals in Europe, which
was translated into a feature film. It was also screened in
the Short Short Story Film Festival in the
United States in 2009.

Mama is about two girls, Victoria and
Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be
their mother in a Gothic home.

The feature version of Mama was executive produced by Guillermo
Del Toro after being impressed with the short version of
the film.